[Biofizika] [Ebsa] Boden Research Conference 2016 (Sept 19-23, Australia)

[Vattulainen Ilpo]

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Dear colleagues,

Do you want to think about convergences and divergences between the physical and biological sciences? Do want to contribute to a discourse on emergence of structure and function in living and synthetic systems? We are now inviting abstracts for the

    Boden Research Conference 2016: Animal, Vegetal, Mineral?
    Yallingup/Western Australia
    19-23 September 2016.

The meeting will be an interdisciplinary open discourse on topics related to the formation mechanisms of complex structures in biological and synthetic systems, and their functions and properties. How far can (dead) physics, chemistry, material science and mathematics explain (living) biology? How can biology inform physics, chemistry, mathematics and material science? Emergent structure in physical and biological systems draws inspiration from a very broad section of the mathematical, physical and biological sciences. Topics from differential geometry to evolutionary biology, origami to drug delivery, all play critical roles in the field, and we encourage contributions from all backgrounds with a willingness to tackle the central questions of the conference.

See the website 

    www.animal-vegetal-mineral.org  

for our list of 20 invited speakers, and to submit abstracts. The abstract deadline is 11 April 2016.

Note that we'll have some bursaries to support attendance by early-career researchers and that we are planning a PhD research spring school in the week after the conference, at Murdoch University. A special issue related to the themes of the conference will be published by Interface Focus.

The conference is the official 2016 Boden Research Conference, sponsored by the Australian Academy of Sciences, and it is co-sponsored by the Australian Mathematical Society.

The success of the meeting and discussion will hinge on the enthusiasm of the attendees. Please join us! We expect a frank but congenial meeting that will straddle traditional scientific communities in a splendid location.

Best wishes,
Bodo, Charlotte, Gerd, Myf & Stephen

Bodo Wilts         - Adolphe Merkle Institute, Fribourg
Charlotte Conn     - RMIT, Melbourne
Gerd Schröder-Turk - Murdoch University
Myfanwy Evans      - Technical University Berlin
Stephen Hyde       - Australian National University

 
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